Interpreting the Poem, The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
             "The Road Not Taken" written by Robert Lee Frost, is a poem that consists of four five-line stanzas with only two end rhymes in each stanza (abaab). "The Road Not Taken" can be interpreted in many different ways. The poem deals with the choice between two paths, and the results of the choice that the person makes. It raises the evident question of whether it is better to choose a road in which many travel, or to choose the road less traveled and explore it for oneself. Several kinds of literary devices can be found in the poem. The more times I read the poem over and over, I get a literal meaning from the traveler choosing which road to take to a more figurative meaning of choices in life, and how it will change one's life in choosing the right path.
             At first, reading the poem made me think about what Robert Frost meant by the "two roads diverged in a yellow wood," and what was he talking about in the poem. After I finished reading the poem for the first time, I think about the choices that a person has to make, then I start to think about my life and the choices that I made. The choices that I have chosen that affected the way I am now in choosing the right friends, decisions affecting my school work, and the choice to stay away from drugs. The poem also reminded me about the time I had to decide on whether to take a short cut road or go on the regular road. I decided to take the short cut that caused me to be in a car accident, but fortunately no one was injured. The short cut was the one "less traveled by," because it was after a snow day and that road hadn't been plow thoroughly yet, which I didn't know at the time. The poem basically represents life and choices that one has to make that can affect one's future. Each person must be cautious of the decisions they make in life, because once they chose to d...